HDD – hard drive in english – or simply HD, is the most important part of your computer. This is where your operating system is installed and your files are saved. Unfortunately, like any electronic component, its lifespan is decreasing every day, and therefore it needs to be looked after.

If your computer is relatively new, don’t worry. It won’t be damaged anytime soon. But it’s important to check the integrity of your hard drive from time to time to make sure there’s no unexpected corruption and subsequent data loss. In this post, I will teach you how you can do it on computers with Windows 11.

There are different ways to check your HD. You can use the built-in apps on your PC or even third party apps that have the same purpose. Let’s first take a look at some of the built-in tools that Windows itself has that solve all sorts of problems that a computer may have:

1. VIC
VMIC is an abbreviation Windows Management Instrumentation command. OUR VMIC is a tool command line which helps you check and manage Windows tasks such as hard drive health check.
See how to do it:

Step 1: Click the search icon on the taskbar and search for “team“. Click Open.

Step 2: on the command linetype it “VMIC” and press to come in.

Step 3: After that enter: “disk get status» and press again to come in.

The tool will run quickly and give you detailed information about how your hard drive is performing in a few seconds. If everything is fine, it will be like in the picture below:

2. CHKDSK

Another tool that Window suggestions are “CHKDSK” What means “Check Disk“. This tool checks and repairs your hard drive for errors. In addition, it also scans your drive for bad sectors and marks them as “bad” before trying to recover any information you have access to. See how to do it:

Step 1: Search again “teamin the search bar, this time right-click and run the program as an administrator.
Step 2: At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER: “chkdsk /f”

Step 3: after pressing to come in, the command will run and ask you to run a disk check on the next reboot. Type it “with» and confirm.

Ready! The next time you restart your PC CHDSK will give you the status and health of your HD.

You can still use third party apps to check HD integrity, here are some examples:

1. HDDScan

The name itself explains itself. OUR HDDScan checks the status of your HD and detects any problems.
It also supports several other features that make this app a good choice for checking the health of your hard drive. Some of them include:

• Butterfly Reading Mode.
• Line check.
• Linear reading.
• axis origin

The application is free, its interface is simple and intuitive. Although it does not yet provide support Windows 11in our test, the application worked without problems.

2. Guardian of the hard drive

OUR hard drive guardian works the same way. It first tests and diagnoses your HD. from the details obtained, it fixes hard drive errors.

Just as good as HDDScanit displays all information related to your hard drive like balance, rotation speed, seek error rate, read error rate and so on.

Checking the status of your computer helps extend its life. In this way, you ensure that it does not suffer from sudden data loss due to some kind of glitch.

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